Ian McLean

Australian Aboriginal Art

Greg Lehman, Susan Lowish, Ian McLean

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

As the art world critique of primitivism only began to take hold in the 1980s, Indigenous art history is a new field of study in t..

The archival turn in contemporary art

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Law & History

Heart of Artness: A journey into the cross-cultural currents that animate Aboriginal art in Australia

Ian McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Future Perfect: The Pukumani Poles

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Curator: The Museum Journal

'John Mawurndjul- I Am the Old and the New' in 'Artlink'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

Western Desert and the Sublime

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2018

'Imants Tillers: Journey to Nowhere' in 'Artlink'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

'Colony' in 'Artlink'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

'Meet the Matrix' in 'Heart of Artness'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2018

Heart of Artness: A journey into the cross-cultural currents that animate Aboriginal art in Australia

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

'Aboriginal art: is it a white thing?'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Paper Tigers: The New Iconoclasm and Identity Politics

I McLean

Journal article  |  2018  |  di'van

'Art With Heart, A Two-Ways World' in 'Heart of Artness'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2018

'Art as Title Deeds' in 'Heart of Artness'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2018

Modernism's History (1998)

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2018

This is a reflective piece, introducing a text selected from Bernard Smith's book, Modernism's History (first published 1998). In ..

Modernism and the Art of Albert Namatjira

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2018

Performativity and Indigenous Art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2018

'More of the Matrix' in 'Heart of Artness'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2018

'The Conquistador, the Warlpiri and the Dog Whisperer' in 'Heart of Artness'

I McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Recorded or Rendered Work - Other  |  2018

Missions and the making of Aboriginal modern art in the Western Desert

I McLean, Jacqueline Healy

Book Chapter  |  2017

Being amongst some of the earliest known documentations of Australian Indigenous cultures, the collection includes the earliest ex..

Turning Point: Art and Aboriginal Australia in the 1930s

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2017

What Is the Role and Function of Art and Its Institutions? What Can Art Institutions Do … with Indigenous Art?

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2017

Imaginary Accord both documents and reinvigorates the fortieth anniversary activities of Australia's oldest independent art galler..

Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art

I McLean, Darren Jorgensen

Book  |  2017

Into the Transpocene: The Future of Indigenous Art

I McLean

Journal article  |  2017  |  Artlink: Australian contemporary art quarterly

Seemingly fixed discourse positions are ... mixed up. Black becomes white - white becomes black. Thomas Reinhardt on Kader Attia's..

Lost causes and Inappropriate Theory: Aboriginal Art It’s a White Thing and OtherTales of Sovereignty

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2017

Introduction: Convergent Archives

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2017

Brook Andrew: The right to offend is Sacred, in Artlink

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2017

Review(s) of: Brook Andrew: The right to offend is Sacred, National Gallery of Victoria, 3 March - 4 June 2017.

Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

Ian McLean

Book  |  2016

In this book, Ian McLean tells the improbable story of how a culture once viewed as one of the most primitive in the world invente..

'Beware Crossing: Transculturation in Australian Art' in 'Black, White & Restive: Cross-cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2016

The Eternal Return of Irony: Gordon Bennett (1955–2014)

I McLean

Journal article  |  2016  |  Discipline

Bernard Smith’s Blind Spot: Aboriginal and Australian art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2016

Everything you wanted to know about drawing

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2016

Living Waters

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2016

Namatjira, Albert (Elea) (1902–1959)

I McLean

Reference Work  |  2016

Albert Namatjira was the leading artist of the modern Aboriginal watercolor art movement at the Hermannsburg (Ntaria) Lutheran mis..

Indigenous Modernisms

I McLean

Reference Work  |  2016

Indigenous modernism is not to be confused with earlier ideas of modern Indigenous art, though they do to some extent pre-empt it...

Post-Western Poetics: Postmodern Appropriation Art in Australia

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2015

Contemporary Indigenous Art

I McLean

Journal article  |  2015  |  Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria Magazine

A journey into the age of post-appropriation: Derek Kreckler’s ‘Appropriated circumstance’ in 'Derek Kreckler: Accident & process', ed. Hannah Mathews

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2015

Coincides with Kreckler's eponymously titled survey exhibition, opening at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in August 2015. Ot..

Enduring civilisation, entangled histories: Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum

I McLean

Journal article  |  2015  |  Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet

The origin of art: camouflage, anti-camouflage and de-camouflage in the appropriation art of Imants Tillers

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2015

Decoding Double Desire: A conversation with Ian McLean

I McLean, Marina Tyquiengco

Journal article  |  2015  |  Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture

Ian McLean, editor of Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art, discusses his book with Marina Tyquiengco.

'The politics of Australian Indigenous contemporary art' in 'Robert Campbell Jnr: History painter', curated by Djon Mundine OAM

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2015

Introduction

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2014

The double desire explored in this book is that of the divided but also amplified attractions that occur between cultural traditio..

Post-Western Poetics: Postmodern Appropriation Art in Australia

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2014  |  Art History

The necessity of the new: Between the modern and the contemporary

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2014

Modernism without borders

I McLean

Journal article  |  2014  |  Filozofski Vestnik International

Theories

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2014

‘Contemporary Perspectives: Balgo Futures’ in 'Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2014

Book Reviews: No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession

I McLean

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Australian Journal of Anthropology

'Paddy Bedford of Jirrawun: Two-Way Street' in 'No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Paintings'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2014

Names

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2014

Dreamings: L’Arte Aborigena Australiana incontra de Chirico

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2014

Double Desire: Becoming Aboriginal

I McLean

Journal article  |  2014  |  Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet

Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art

Ian McLean

Book  |  2014

Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. The doub..

Contemporaneous Traditions: The World in Indigenous Art/Indigenous Art in the World

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Humanities Research

Let Uz Not Talk Falsely Now, in 'Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners', curated by Max Delaney and Francis E. Parker

I McLean, Rex Butler

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2013

Processus interculturels dans l’art Aborigène

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2013

Ubiquitous on the international scene since the 1980s, Australian Aboriginal art contributed significantly to a true globalization..

Strategic Aboriginalism: Paul Taylor, postmodernism, neo-Expressionism and Aboriginal art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2013

On the world stage: 12 Gordon Bennett

I McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Art Collector

Convivial Futures: The Relational Art of Ruark Lewis

I McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Art Monthly Australia

The mysterious corresspondence between Charles Baudelaire and Tommy McRae: Reimagining modernism in Austalia as a contact zone

I McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Surviving the contemporary: What Indigenous artists want, and how to get it

I McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet

This belongs to me, the one dollar note: the eternal returns of appropriation

I McLean

Journal article  |  2013  |  Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet

Inventing Australian Aboriginal art: From anti-art to fine art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2013

How have imperialism and its after-effects impacted patterns of cultural exchange, artistic creativity and historical/​curatorial ..

‘The secret history of performance art in 'Bomb: Blak Douglas and Adam Geczy'

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2013

Reinventing the Savage

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2012  |  Third Text

Gordon Bennett: History painter – the ghost returns

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2012

Published... on the occasion of the exhibition New 2011: Selected recent acquisitions, 17 December 2011 - 25 March 2010"--p. 170. ..

Arte Indigena Contemporaneo en Australien

I McLean, E Izzett

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2012

Notes from the field: Appropriation

I McLean

Journal article  |  2012  |  The Art bulletin

Gordon Bennett in a Global Perspective: Aesthetic theory and the Politics of Recovery

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2012

Catalogue of an exhibition held at AAMU (Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal art) /​Museum voor hedendaagse Aboriginal Kunst, Utrech..

Black and White: A tale of cities and men

I McLean, Una Rey

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2012

Exhibition catalogue of individual and collaborative works by Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers; includes examination of ..

Between Indigenous and European art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2012

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Flinders University City Gallery, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 29 June-26 August..

The world art artworld

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2011  |  World Art

How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art

I McLean

Book  |  2011

The gift that time gave: Myth and history in the Western Desert painting movement

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2011

From rock art to Australian modernism, from bark paintings to the Heidelberg School, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of..

Aboriginal cosmopolitans: A prehistory of Western Desert Painting

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2011

Probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art i..

Reverse perspective: Bernard Smith’s worldview and the cosmopolitan imagination

I McLean

Journal article  |  2011  |  Journal of Art Historiography

Billy Benn, Outsider Art and art history

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2011

Billy Benn is a landscape painter from Atitjere (Artetyerre/​Harts Range) in Central Australia. He primarily paints the country pa..

Australian Indigenous Art

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2010

An introduction to art history and the art world.

Pretty pictures, big stories: Tim Johnson: Painting ideas

I McLean

Journal article  |  2010  |  Eyeline

The exhibition, 'Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas', begins in the early 1970s with Johnson's droll fixation on miniskirts blowin' in th..

Event horizon: the ends of art

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2010

Published on the occasion of the exhibition space-matter-colour, Brian Blanchflower, paintings from four decades, 16 May-1 August ..

Aboriginal art and globalization

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2010

Drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery's extensive contemporary acquisitions made in the first decade of this century, '21st Centur..

The authenticity of Australian Aboriginal painting in the age of globalization

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2010

Remembering Forward presents works by nine of the most prominent Australian Aboriginal artists: Paddy Bedford, Emily Kame Kngwarre..

Wunderkammering

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2010

Catalogue of an exhibition of colonial and contemporary works related to the theme of Australia as a cabinet of curiosities in the..

Bedford, Paddy

Ian McLean

Reference Work  |  2009

Aboriginal Australian contemporary art, 1990–2010

Ian McLean

Reference Work  |  2009

Peters, Rusty

Ian McLean

Reference Work  |  2009

White Aborigines Identity Politics in Australian Art

Ian McLean

Book  |  2009

This highly original book shows that Australian art, and the writing of its history, has since settlement been in a dialog (althou..

Provinicialism upturned

I McLean

Journal article  |  2009  |  Third Text

The project of Third Text - as a critical voice of the Third World avant-garde - along with the whole process of globalisation, is..

Historicity and Aboriginal art: how long will it take for Aboriginal art to become modern?

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  2009

to follow

Bennelong’s gambit: The Aboriginal invention of modernism

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2009

From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to f..

Reviews

Bertha Husband, Ali Nobil Ahmad, Victor Tupitsyn, Ian McLean, John Streamas

Journal article  |  2008  |  Third Text

Landscape Histories: Mapping Environmental and Ecological Change Through the Landscape Art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia

Andrea Gaynor, Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2008  |  Environment and History

Aboriginal modernism? Two histories one painter, in Utopia: The genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, ed. Margo Neale

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2008

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Museum of Australia, 22nd August - 12th October, 2008. The Genius of Emily Kame Kn..

Aboriginal Modernism in Australia

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2008

Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, Exiles, Diaspor..

The expanded field of the picturesque: contested identities and empire in Sydney Cove 1794

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2007

Un art flamboyant: Le peinture Aborigene du desert et la modernisme, in Peinture aborigène contemporaine des déserts du Centre et de l'Ouest australiens, collection Mark Cordella & Francis Missana

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2007

Catalogue to accompany an exhibition of works, Peinture aborigène contemporaine des déserts du Centre et de l'Ouest australiens : ..

Against the grain: Towards a natural history of art and taste

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2007

"Much of the material was prepared for the Visual Animals Symposium which took place under the auspices of the Contemporary Art Ce..

Crossing Country

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2006  |  Third Text

The Australianness of the English Claude: Nation and Empire in the Art of John Glover

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2006  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Hegel or Darwin? The Role of Tendencies in Bernard Smith’s Historiography

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2005  |  Thesis Eleven

The Limits of Art History: Towards an Ecological History of Landscape Art

I McLean, Andrea Gaynor

Journal article  |  2005  |  Landscape Review

An ecological art history primarily concerns the relationship between the aesthetic and representational functions of landscape ar..

On the Edge of Change?

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2004  |  Third Text

Postcolonial Traffic William Kentridge and Aboriginal Desert Painters

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2003  |  Third Text

Landscape and Ideology

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2003

Disputed Territories investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies. In ..

Figuring nature: painting the indigenous landscape, in John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, ed. David Hansen

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2003

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 28 November 2003-1 February 2004 ; Art Gallery of..

Sublime Futures: eco-art and the return of the real in Peter Dombrovskis, John Wolseley and Andy Goldsworthy

I McLean

Journal article  |  2002  |  Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Technology

The paper examines the relationship between earlier nineteenth century aesthetic representations of nature through a romantic subj..

Angel of History

Ian Mclean

Journal article  |  2002  |  Third Text

Forum

Journal article  |  2002  |  Third Text

Eco-art: the wild alternative

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  2002

To follow. Proceedings ISBN: 0859019926

Global Indigeneity and Australian Desert Painting: Eric Michaels, Marshall McLuhan, Paul Ricoeur and the End of Incommensurability

Ian Mclean

Journal article  |  2002  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Back to the future

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2001  |  Third Text

Sense of place: Edward Dayes's and Thomas Watling's pictures of Sydney Cove

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2001  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

Picturing Australia: The Impressionist Swindle

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  2001

Paper delivered at a conference organised by the Australian Studies Centre, University of Ballarat, 1-2 December 1995.

Reviews: Exploring the Modern

I McLean

Journal article  |  2001  |  Thesis Eleven

The poverty of art historiography

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2000  |  Third Text

One mob, one voice, one land: Lin Onus and indigenous postmodernism

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2000

Essay in a catalogue accompanying an exhibition held 11 August-30 October 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art; 24 November-4 Ma..

John Berger, Ways of seeing and the new art history

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2000

Note: Most of the essays were originally presented as conference papers, 18-19 Sept. 1999. "10 September - 6 November 1999, ANU Ca..

Reviews

I Mclean

Journal article  |  1999  |  Thesis Eleven

Under Saturn: melancholy and the colonial imagination

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  1999

Taking as its departure point Bernard Smith's classic study, European Vision and the South Pacific (1960), Double Vision explores ..

Being and Nothing: Figuring Aboriginality in Australian Art History

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  1999

This paper was first delivered as the third Sir Keith Hancock Lecture, a series that shares the research of young academics with a..

Making a place in a non-place: spatiality in the writing of Paul Carter

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  1998

Papers from Conference on Cities, Communities, Regions: Stories about Place, Problems and Arguments held at La Trobe University, 1..

Reviews

I Mclean

Journal article  |  1997  |  Thesis Eleven

Europe's Antipodean Others

I Mclean

Journal article  |  1997  |  Thesis Eleven

The Art of Gordon Bennett

Ian McLean, Gordon Bennett

Book  |  1996

Critical appreciation of the art of Gordon Bennett including "The Manifest Toe" by the artist; autobiography influences and artist..

Reviews

SE Dawson, S Crook, I Mclean, N Papastergiadis

Journal article  |  1996  |  Thesis Eleven

Reviews

I Mclean

Journal article  |  1996  |  Thesis Eleven

A Pool of Mirrors: Gordon Bennett's present wall, in Adelaide Installations, incorporating the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1994

I McLean

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  1994

Essay accompanying an installation by Gordon Bennett at the 1994 Adelaide Festival of the Arts and published in a catalogue of exh..

Colonials Kill Artfully

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  1991

Angel and Vise: Ideas of History in Marxist Modernism

I McLean

Conference Proceedings  |  1990

Discusses 'ideas of modernism among Marxist critics of the 1930s, revising conventional accounts of Clement Greenberg's theories o..